Attention-seeking Activities That Give Children Purposes for Listening

Turner, Thomas N.

Tennessee Education, 8, 1, 15-9, Spr 78

Meant to be attention-getters, the activities work on two principles: that children need an immediate and personal purpose in order to pay attention; and that listening should be an involving activity, that is, a child needs to listen in order to do something with what is heard. (Author/NQ)